DeveloperWeek Management 2024 + AI DevSummit 2024 (+ DW Europe/LATAM 2024)

Mifan Careem, WSO2, Chief Solutions Officer

2023 was the year of efficiency. As the industry trended towards doing more with less, the focus of software development also shifted focus towards productivity. Enterprises and teams are looking at becoming more productive and efficient - which essentially means producing better, faster, cheaper, secure products, with a faster time to market and lesser engineering effort.

Reuse is the gold standard in software development that most organizations are aiming for. Having the right level of abstractions is the first step in enabling reuse at multiple levels - be it at application level with APIs, infrastructure level with Kubernetes, or going a notch higher with integration programming and no-code platforms, Platform DevOps with Platform engineering all the way to platform-less concepts. There is no one size fit all solution for enterprises of all sizes though, and picking the right areas to build vs buy vs abstract is critical. In this talk, we look at what the right levels of abstraction mean to different organizations, the economic value and compounding effect of reuse at different levels, and how productive various abstractions are in reality.